Milk-strainer.



P. EKSTROM.

MILK STRAINBB.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 9, 1908.

Patented M3122, 1909.

-strainers Projecting from .the inner ROY P. EKSTROM, OF ELM CREEK, NEBRASKA.

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Specification of "Lettere `iatent.

Patented March 2, 1909.

Application led Mey 5, 1908. Serial Ho. eSLSG.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, ROY l). EKs'rRoM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Elm Creek, in the countyof Buffalo, State of Nebraska, have invented certain new end useful improvements in Milk-Strainers; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as Will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. A

This invention relates to devices for straining milk and analogous purposes, and may be employed as a separate implement or receptacle or as an attachment to a milk pail, and has for one of its obiects to provide a simply constructed device of tliis character lia-ving a relatively iine strainer at it" lower end and a relatively coarse strainer near its upper end, the manner of suspendir t tine coarser-strainer in the receptacle being tire principal feature of the present invention, and in the drawings illustrating preferred embodiment of the invention, Figure is a sectional elevation of the improved device, Fig. 2 is a plan view.

The improved device comprises a re' 10, preferably in funnel shape and screen 11 at the lower end of relai-ii n mesh or the mesh usually employed in of the receiver 1() are e plurality or suprise ing Wardly and with the free ends 13 reduced, es shown.

Restingr upon the reduced ends 13 oi' tire projections l2 is a frame i4 having a covering of relatively coarse screen material i5, tire screen mat iai engaging the reduced ends 13 of the projections and supported tiiereby, the reduced ends time preventing tire acci dental .movement oi tire screen.. The 'trame i4 is provided at one side with a vertical handle il@ to enable the screen to be easily removed or adjusted Within the receiver.

devices 12 inclining` inwardly ano np-.

The upper coarser screen is designed to receive leaves, strai'v, and similar foreign matter and preventing it from remaining in tlie milk, while the small screen strains in tlie ordinary manner.

The receiver i0 may be attached permanently to a milk kpail in convenient position. for the reception of tbe milk from the cow, or arranged as a separate receiver detachable from a pail or other receptacle.

The improved devicc is simple in construction, can be inexpensively' manufactured, and tbe coa-rser screen. being removableV can be readily cleansed, and leaves tile receptacle 'also easily cleansable.

rilie improved device maybe of any required size or capacity, and l do not t 1 re-v fiere wish to be limited in any manner to the precise construction shown, as variousmodifcations may be made therein witliin the eeope of tbe appended claim. without dep 7`Ling from the principle of the invention.

hat is claimed, is l in] combination with a strainer, 'irfe screen fiXedly secured at the liinf-zreofv, [and a second screen removably L"itted within said strainer and disposed ad- .ently tlie opposite end thereof, a support zo: 'the said second named screen consisting et a plurality of brackets, each of said brackets being formed of a single piece of sheet i. etai siibstantially triangular in contour, tnebase end of which is secured to the inner of the strainer and the horizontal central portion of which is viiexed inwardly with respect to the strainers, so that the vertex Wiil enter tlie openings of the second named screen.

l i testimony whereof, l affix my in presence of' two witnesses.

having a lower end lfi ti'iesses V Enma; limes, C. if). Brass.

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